Suzzoni Barracks in Neuf-Brisach (Haut-Rhin)

Amount of State subsidy:

€340,000 (out of €880,000), including €296,143 from the Economic Recovery Plan

Property: commune

Start of work: 2022

General presentation of the building

The Suzzoni barracks is one of the many buildings protected as historic monuments of the city of Neuf-Brisach, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008. It is the only one of the four original barracks still in place, built between 1704 and 1709 according to the plans of the architect and inspector of fortifications Jacques Tarade. In 1870, it emerged almost intact from the major destruction of the city. The Prussians redevelop it and modify more particularly the Officers' Pavilion by elevating it by one floor. Restructured into dwellings on xx^e It is currently unaffected.

General characteristicsnemerals of the monument 

Built along the north curtain of Neuf-Brisach, the barracks is made up of two adjoining building blocks, both of double thickness, forming a 175-metre long ensemble: to the west, a large rectangular pavilion with two square floors, said Officers' Lodge, and to the east a very long single-storey wing, intended for soldiers. A second flag, at the east end, was apparently originally intended but was never raised. The whole, covered with roofs in addition, has a level of attic lighted attic barlong windows and a few dormers.  The buildings are constructed of mixed plastered brick masonry and exposed-cut stone and have very simple elevations. Stone chains in bosses mark the corners of the pavilion and the location of the walls that divide the soldiers' wing into eight identical housing units, each served by its own staircase. On the main facade, facing south, the openings are framed on the ground floor of simple chambranles of pink stoneware, while the windows of the floors are supported by triglyph brackets under the sill and surmounted by a cornice. Only the entrance to the officers' hall, located in the centre of the facade towards the city, has a richer architectural decoration. The door is flanked by pilasters with alternating rustic bosses and crowned by dampening pyramidions on the cornice, on both sides of a window with volutes and broken pediment on the first floor. A false dormer, housing a clock dial, crowns this span. The ornaments, in the neo-Renaissance style of the Rhine, attest to a major transformation of the building after 1870, when the Germans installed a cadet school in the barracks.

Presentation of the dorders

The roof and carpentry no longer ensure the watertightness and safety of the building. The coatings are very degraded and lacunary, leaving the brick masonry bare on many trumeaux.

Presentation of the parti de restauration

Restoration of the closed-canopy and restoration of a homogeneity of appearance in elevation; safety and security of the building pending its future assignment.